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...object of this controversy is a slight, fringe-bearded alto saxophonist named Ornette Coleman. No jazzman has created such a stir since Charlie Parker started packing them in at the Three Deuces on 52nd Street 15 years ago. Last week, insiders of the cool world were flocking to a shabby cave in Manhattan...
...operated for its owner, a Cuban labor union. (The rebels told Nacional Manager William Land he would have to start paying for his room.) The hotels have been losing $100,000 a month since U.S. tourists began staying away. Castro accused the American management of not doing enough to stir up U.S. tourist trade...
...Insult to All. Because Communist chieftains are so eager to see division in the West, they tend to overestimate both the width of the fissures they detect and their ability to widen them with ploys, threats and propaganda. Crude Communist efforts to stir division within the U.S. or between the U.S. and its allies often have the opposite effect of fostering a more determined unity. Inevitably, Khrushchev's attack on President Eisenhower rebounded...
...complaint. To the New York Society of Security Analysts he said darkly: "Somebody came to me several months ago and said, 'If you don't get out of Briggs, one of the family is married to a Senator from Michigan, and we're going to stir up things in Washington.' " Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip A. Hart, married to a daughter of the firm's founder, heatedly denounced Evans' innuendo...
...greatest of the few absolute monarchs left on earth has come out-in his own fashion-for democracy. Two years ago, towering, half-blind King Saud of Saudi Arabia, deep in debt in an oil-rich nation, beset by Nasser's efforts to stir up trouble inside the country, was compelled to call upon his more vigorous and cultivated brother, Crown Prince Feisal, to take charge of the country, save its finances, and restore its prestige in the Arab world. Since then, the treasury has been built up, and the throne has not been embroiled in the intrigues...